Tuesday, January 17, 2017

A wish for a less absolutist world by Bashir Goth | Special to Gulf News

In the age of the internet, we seem to have lost touch with civility and good judgement

As we enter 2017, we face a world tormented by absolutism. A world
dominated by black-and-white attitudes, where opposing political and
ideological sides dig their heels deeper and deeper in their trenches.
The narrative of politics, culture and social media everywhere seems to
follow the old American idiom of “my way or the highway”.

You are either an alt-right or a liberal, a troll or a critic, a racist
or a gutless global citizen, a climate change advocate or a die-hard
sceptic, a Brexit supporter or a continental European, a fear-mongering
xenophobic conservative or an unpatriotic destroyer of national
identity, a native or an immigrant, a greedy accumulator of wealth or a
heavy parasite, an elite egg-head or a deplorable ignorant, a zealot
pessimist or irredeemable optimist, an untrustworthy crook or a
pathological liar, a terrorist or racial hatemonger, a freedom fighter
or a radical sectarian. Read more in Gulf News